Monday, August 8, 2016

Cockroach Milk: Yes. You Read That Right and other top stories.

  • Cockroach Milk: Yes. You Read That Right

    Cockroach Milk: Yes. You Read That Right
    The Pacific beetle cockroach, which is native to Hawaii, gives birth to live young. Yasu Ueda/Flickr Pour out that almond milk — the new hip thing cockroach milk. Well, kind of. The female Pacific beetle cockroach is one of a kind. Unlike other insect species, this Hawaiian native gives birth to live young. And she feeds them a pale, yellow liquid "milk" from her brood sack. The nutrient-rich milk crystals of the Pacific beetle cockroach are pre..
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  • Spectacular comet suicide: Does that happen often?

    Spectacular comet suicide: Does that happen often?
    Between Wednesday and Thursday this week, astronomers at NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) noticed something special - a comet in close proximity to the sun.And then it was gone.Astronomers watched the comet plunged towards the sun, where it was rapidly devoured by solar forces. Comet suicides aren’t necessarily the result of a direct impact with the sun, but typically occur when a comet passes too close to the sun to withstand the sun's  gravitational forces and heat, and disint..
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  • New Form Of Light Could Makes Study Of Quantum Phenomena Easier

    New Form Of Light Could Makes Study Of Quantum Phenomena Easier
    In a development that could greatly help the study of quantum phenomena, scientists have created a theoretical model for a new form of light that combines the properties of photons and electrons. If turned into reality, the new light form could also be used to make electrical circuits which at present use electrons for conduction.Scientists from Imperial College London published a study in the journal Nature Communications on Friday that shows “it is possible to create a new form of light by bin..
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  • The mystery of why sunflowers turn to follow the sun — solved

    The mystery of why sunflowers turn to follow the sun — solved
    Scientists have answered a burning question central to the charm of sunflowers: Why do young flowers move their blooms to always face the sun over the course of a day? And then: Once sunflowers reach maturity, why do they stop tracking the sun and only face east? In a newly-published article in Science, the researchers say the young plant's sun-tracking (also called heliotropism) can be explained by circadian rhythms – the behavioral changes tied to an internal clock that humans also have, whic..
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  • Apollo 11 lunar sample bag lands at center of lawsuits

    Apollo 11 lunar sample bag lands at center of lawsuits
    August 6, 2016 — A small white bag that was once used by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong to hold the first-ever lunar samples to be collected from the surface of the moon is now at the center of not one, but two lawsuits over who owns it today. The zippered cloth pouch, which was labeled in bold black letters "Lunar Sample Return," was used on July 20, 1969 as the "outer decontamination bag" to hold the moon rocks for their trip back to Earth with Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. U..
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  • Dinosaurs, like modern animals, dealt with septic arthritis

    Dinosaurs, like modern animals, dealt with septic arthritis
    Septic arthritis, as it seems, is an age-old affliction that doesn’t just cause great pain to humans and some present-day animals. In fact, it had existed at least 70 million years ago, and caused a certain type of dinosaur to feel such pain. A new study published earlier in the week details how a dinosaur found in what is now the southern part of New Jersey suffered from septic arthritis, which is a condition that can also be found in humans, crocodiles, and some birds. This makes it the fir..
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  • Thaw could release Cold War-era U.S. toxic waste buried under Greenland's ice

    Thaw could release Cold War-era U.S. toxic waste buried under Greenland's ice
    OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Camp Century was built in northwest Greenland in 1959 as part of U.S. research into the feasibility of nuclear missile launch sites in the Arctic, the University of Zurich said in a statement. Staff left gallons of fuel and an unknown amount of low-le..
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